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As someone who just had an office potluck this week, I could not stopping laughing during this episode. At one point, I had to leave my desk because I was scared my headphones might come out of my desktop and my colleagues would have known why I didn’t eat any of the gross shit they brought in.

Best episode of the year. Thanks, Rod & Karen. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

You had me rolling on the floor laughing about the potluck office parties. When I worked in corporate America, all our parties were catered. At my current office, a non-profit, we have pot luck celebrations and it is multi-cultural AF in my office. After 11 years, I’ve learned to deal. Everyone here keeps in pretty basic but at first, my grandma’s voice would be in the back of my head like “You can’t eat everyone’s potato salad.”

Even funnier, I was listening to this episode while on my way to my daughter’s school. Her class was having a Winter Solstice party. I seriously didn’t know it was going to be a potluck. I came in with the fancy wrapped cookies from the supermarket and I saw all those foil trays and Ziploc bowls. Couldn’t even front with the “I just ate” either. LMAO.

LMAO Rod talking about black parent’s hating on their kids music brought me back to the days when my best friend’s dad used to very inapropriately refer to Bone Thugs N Harmony, as “Bone Thugs and Faggots”… terrible I know, but he never really cared much for the music, and decided to use the most inappropriate word he could think of to describe them.

I understand the idea of having an awesome/memorable proposal, but that proposal was ridiculous & pissed me off. Having lost someone to police violence and with the black deaths that we’re seeing today, I was so upset to see this. It was a lot. That shit wasn’t romantic, nor funny. It was unsafe. I dont know how I would’ve reacted seeing cops pointing weapons at my man & him reaching in his pockets. Like, what?!? & to know that he emotionally traumatized her before by telling her he was “on the run” just put it next to “too fucking far” for a woman like me. People have seen their fathers, husbands, brothers and family members executed at the hands of the police and they’re “re-enacting” it for romance!? In the words of Rosa Parks, “nah”.